Domenico Ghirlandaio
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Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi, professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation
Detail from Adoration of the Shepherds, 1485
Pope Gregory announces the death of Santa Fina, in the Collegiate Church of San Gimignano (about 1477)
The Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule from the Sassetti Chapel, with portraits of Lorenzo de' Medici and his family occupying prominent positions as spectators to the event
The Adoration of the Shepherds, Sassetti Chapel, containing a portrait of Ghirlandaio as one of the Shepherds
An Old Man and his Grandson
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An Old Man and his Grandson is a ca. 1490 tempera painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Domenico Ghirlandaio. One of Ghirlandaio's best-known works, it is considered notable for its emotional poi
Domenico Ghirlandaio
…number of panel portraits of known identities, such as his profile portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, commissioned in 1488. Perhaps his best known is the Portrait of an Old Man and his Grandson, remarkable for both the tenderness of expression and the realism with which the disfigured nose (rhinophyma) of the old man is depicted. According to…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico An Old Man and His Grandson Louvre Google Art Project
Head of an Old Man. Metalpoint drawing on pink paper, heightened with white. 28.1 cm x 21.5 cm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Before the 1996 restoration.